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An exposition upon the thirteenth chapter of the Revelation by that reverend and eminent…
An exposition upon the thirteenth chapter of the Revelation by that reverend and eminent servant of the Lord, Mr. John Cotton ... ; taken from his mouth in short-writing, and some part of it corrected by himself soon after the preaching thereof ; and all of it since viewed over by a friend to him ... wherein some mistakes were amended, but nothing of the sense altered.
London: printed for Tim. Smart, 1656
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Upon the thirteenth Chapter of the REVELATION. › Part
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Because they were ignorantly blind;1 It was a time of palpable darkness, darkness that might be felt: From the ninth Century to the tenth, both Protestant and Popish Divines complain, that had not some lived in the 800. year, and in the thousand year after Christ, they should not have known what had been done in the nine hundred, a whole hundred years together: Men were so full of darkness and ignorance, that scarce any set pen to paper to tell us what was done in those dark times; that men did not know what were principles of Christianity, much less were able to discern of Cases of Church-government, or the mystery of godliness which requires more diligent attendance: And thence it was that they were so taken with the pretended claims of the Catholic visible Church, that it would not err, because it was built upon a Rock, and had the keys of Peter, and he had the keys of heaven: What he bound on earth was bound in heaven; and what he loosed on earth was loosed in heaven; that had there not been palpable gross ignorance, it had not been possible such gross things should have been suffered to come in.
1. Because they were ignorantly blinde;1 It was a time of palpable darknesse, darknesse that might be felt: From the ninth Centuary to the tenth, both Protestant and Popish Divines complaine, that had not some lived in the 800. year, and in the thousand yeare after Christ, they should not have known what had beene done in the nine hundred, a whole hundred years together: Men were so full of darknesse and ignorance, that scarce any set pen to paper to tell us what was done in those dark times; that men did not know what were principles of Christianity, much lesse were able to discern of Cases of Church-government, or the misterie of godlinesse which requires more diligent attendance: And thence it was that they were so taken with the pretended claymes of the Catholick visible Church, that it would not erre, because it was built upon a Rock, and had the keys of Peter, and he had the keys of heaven: What he bound on earth was bound in heaven; and what he loosed on earth was loosed in heaven; that had there not been palpable grosse ignorance, it had not been possible such grosse things should have been suffered to come in.
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